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Managers Of Maid Cafe In Thailand Arrested, Manga Seized

July 25th, 2007 by James

A report from Japanese TV news about an incident that occurred in Thailand earlier this month:

Anime News Network has written an article about what happened:

Thailand’s police arrested two managers of Akiba, a maid cafe in Bangkok’s Siam Square, and confiscated 200 volumes of imported Japanese manga on July 18. One of those arrested is Thavatchai Pruekrisakul, the 26-year-old who opened the cafe with Taveelarp Kumpolkarnjana. The two opened the shop as Southeast Asia’s first maid cafe on April 21, 2006. The police explained the arrests and confiscation: “We investigated due to complaints from guardians that children would frequent the maid cafe. There was obscene artwork in the manga.”

According to the TV report Thailand is a much more conservative society than Japan, and the Thai police didn’t take very kindly to the idea of kids reading nudy comics at the establishment in question.



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